Microsoft Ventures has added four more companies to its investment portfolio.

Microsoft's venture arm, announced in May 2016, also is establishing an AI-specific fund, officials said on December 12. Officials said today's announcement of an investment in Element AI, an incubator and AI platform based in Montreal, is the first of its investments from this fund.

Microsoft also announced investments of an unspecified amount in three other companies on December 12. The three: Dynamic Signal, a communications company; Tact, a "sales experience" company; and xAD, a sales intelligence company.

Microsoft is bringing Windows 10 desktop to ARM processorsMicrosoft will bring a natively compiled version of Windows 10 to Qualcomm's ARM processors next year, plus an x86 emulation layer, designed to run on a new class of Windows 10 mobile PCs.

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